widow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 寡妇，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was a widow and shehad to watch her behavior.
-- Deeply distressed, Ellen had told her how easily a widow might get herself talked about.
-- Theconduct of a widow must be twice as circumspect as that of a matron.
-- A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of braid to enliven them, no flower or ribbon orlace or even jewelry, except onyx mourning brooches or necklaces made from the deceased's hair.
-- Mammy brought up temptingtrays, insinuating that now she was a widow she might eat as much as she pleased, but Scarlett had no appetite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.
-- "The house with the bow-window," said Wemmick, "being by the river-side, down the Pool there between Limehouse and Greenwich, and being kept, it seems, by a very respectable widow who has a furnished upper floor to let, Mr. Herbert put it to me, what did I think of that as a temporary tenement for Tom, Jack, or Richard?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 121MOTHER HOLLE nce upon a time there was a widow who had two Odaughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy.
-- When the widow heard that, she said joy-fully to the cat:318 Grimms' Fairy Tales 'Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.'
-- 363SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED here was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to fill to inconvenience the little bar in which the widow landlady and her two daughters received him; it was much too big for the narrow wainscoted room with a bagatelle-board in it, that was first proposed for his reception; it perfectly swamped the little private holiday sitting-room of the family, which was finally given up to him.
-- As a security for the repayment of this advance to P. Q. whom we would call a widow lady, there were placed in A.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead; still in dreams sees the awful white whale that destroyed him.
-- Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin came upon him, then had the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care-killing competency.
-- And that's the reason I never would work for lonely widow old women ashore, when I kept my job-shop in the Vineyard; they might have taken it into their lonely old heads to run off with me.
-- wife? rather a widow with her husband alive!Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey more a demon than a man! aye, aye!what a forty years' fool fool old fool, has old Ahab been!Why this strife of the chase?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
-- The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote the English captain's widow a full account of all my adventures - my slavery, escape, and how I had met with the Portuguese captain at sea, the humanity of his be-haviour, and what condition I was now in, with all other necessary directions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English merchants there, to send over, not the order only, but a full account of my story to a merchant in London, who represented it effectually to her; whereupon she not only delivered the money, but out of her own pocket sent the Portugal captain a very handsome present for his humanity and charity to me.
-- My benefac-tor and faithful steward, whom I had left my money in trust with, was alive, but had had great misfortunes in the world; was become a widow the second time, and very low in the world.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
-- "It was my father's last request to me," replied her husband, "that I should assist his widow and daughters."
-- It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.
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